Georgina Montgomery's Room for Not Knowing mines uncertainty for marvel--opens Apr 21,Chapel Gallery

In Room for Not Knowing, abstract artist Georgina Montgomery explores what it means to accept, and not be undone by, life's unpredictability. 

"[In life] letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. ... We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know." (Pema Chödrön)

Featured are new photography-based single and assembled print works from her "painting with crazed light" project, Caustic Optimism. 

Using a simple photography-based approach, she purposely disrupts her view of ordinary backdrops to see the upended situation with fresh eyes. From this visual chaos she captures rich, painting-like works that are as unexpected as they are compelling.

Montgomery coined the term Caustic Optimism, a blend of caustic optics and cautious optimism. Since 2019, she has been shooting through a single warped-glass object, drawn to the unique compositions, shapes and colours she finds in the highly refracted and reflected light patterns-what physicists call caustic optics. Filtered through her optimistic mindset, this crazed light becomes both material and subject for her project.

Show opens, Thurs, April 21 (6-8 pm). Runs Fri-Sun, April 22 to May 1 (12-4 pm, Fri and Sat; 12-3 pm, Sun); and Wed, April 27 (11 am-2 pm). Gallery located at 600 Richmond Ave in Fairfield. Lots of free parking. Artist in attendance.

Vaccine passports no longer required. Masks optional.

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